French sparkling wines produced outside the Champagne region of France.
Harvest year of grapes and the resulting wines made from them. 95% of the wine in a vintage designated bottle must be from grapes harvested in that year. This allows vintners to top up barrels by adding very small amounts of wine from previous vintages.
Port is a sweet red wine with about 20% alcohol and rather low acidity and tannin. Ideally a good port should have a rich spicy flavor and in spite of its 20% alcohol, taste very smooth. Vintage style ports are very grapey. This grapiness comes from the practice...
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